Experience

Corporación de Túneles y Espacios Subterráneos (CTES-Chile)

• Chile
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Jun 2021 - Present



www.suricatambn.cl

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• Senior Engineering Geologist

  • Dec 2013 - Present

  Senior Consultant in engineering geology and mining at Suricata SpA. Among many others, the followings are some of the projects carried out lately: -Client: Strabag/Alto Maipo. Stress field characterization during construction. -Client: Enel/Norconsult. Several tasks regarding design and follow up during construction with D&B and TBM at Los Cóndores project. In addition, I participated in the constructibility analysis of Vallecito project, including construction methodologies and estimation of costs and times. -Client: Enel/Norconsult. Participation in the constructibility analysis of Vallecito project, including construction methodologies and estimation of costs and times. -Client: Tinguririca Energia. Together with Sweco AS: Inspection during the dewatering of La Higuera headrace tunnel. Services included support evaluation, overall tunnel condition assessment, supervision of drillings, overcoring tests, and preparation of an inspection report, among others. Together with Norconsult: Inspection of Portillo and Tinguirirca tunnels (Confluencia), recommendations of repair works and supervision during the repair works. -Client: Acciona/Norconsult. Follow up of the overall construction methodology of the ventilation tunnels at PMCHS. -Client: IM2/Codelco/BCTec. Project manager for “Rapid preparation of mines”. The project explores new methodologies to optimize the preparation of caving mines. This included several constructability analysis to estimate equipments, times and costs, among others. -Client: Skava/Quellaveco Recommendations with regards to the permanent monitoring system of the deviation tunnel. -Client: Skava External advisor of the innovation group/portfolio of the company. -Client: Ausenco Geotechnical design of a leaching heap. Show less



Ministerio de Obras Públicas

• Chile
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adviser - Tunnel Projects

  • Sep 2018 - Present

  Technical analysis and follow up on the whole portfolio of tunnel projects of the Chilean Government. This includes the following road tunnel projects: Agua Negra, Las Leñas, Subfluvial Las Mulatas, La Grupa 2 and Las Raíces, among others. Technical analysis and follow up on the whole portfolio of tunnel projects of the Chilean Government. This includes the following road tunnel projects: Agua Negra, Las Leñas, Subfluvial Las Mulatas, La Grupa 2 and Las Raíces, among others.



Norconsult Andina S.A.

• Chile
• Civil Engineering

• Manager Engineering Geology

  • Nov 2010 - Dec 2013

  As engineer I participated in several projects, including mainly slope stability assessment and tunnel engineering. Among many others, the following are some key projects: -Andina 244 (Codelco, Chile). Basic design of around 40 km of tunnels. -Baram HPP (SEB Energy, Borneo). Design and bidding documents of diversion tunnels. -Cheves HPP (SNPower, Perú). Slope stability assessment and sporadic support on tunnels during construction. As manager, some of my main responsibilities included to look for new business opportunities, coordinate the team activities, recruit new members, lead proposals, negotiations and marketing activities, among others. Show less



Multiconsult

• Norway
• Construction
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Geologist

  • Apr 2010 - Nov 2010

  Engineering Geologist for a research project entitled as “Probability of Landslides under Multiple Loads: A case study at Devoll Valley, Albania”, developed for the Norwegian company Muticonsult. A novel approach was proposed based on the definition of a Triggering Curve by using Finite Elements Analysis. The methodology was applied to a case study in Albania, where Peak Ground Acceleration due to seismicity and variations in the groundwater level due to rainfall were considered as simultaneous loading factors. The study included fieldwork in Albania, desktop study and FEM analysis, among others. Show less



CODELCO – Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile

• Chile
• Mining
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Jul 2007 - Apr 2009

  Engineering geologist at Chuquicamata Underground project. Tasks included slope stability assessment, tunneling and caverns, among others.

• • Jan 2007 - Jul 2007

  Project entitled as “Geostatistic Applied to Geotechnical Parameters”, performed at Codelco (National Corporation of Copper, Chile). In this work, I analyzed the main features ofgeotechnical parameters that must be considered for geostatistical applications, such as directional behavior and non-linearity. Codelco provided an extensive geotechnical database for the development of a case study.



ENAP

• Chile
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Internship-Geophysics

  • Dec 2005 - Feb 2006

  Internship in the department of resources exploration. Internship in the department of resources exploration.



Armada de Chile

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• National Observer

  • Dec 2004 - Jan 2005

  Chilean National Observer on board of the geophysical research ship Sonne, from Germany in southern Chile for the European project Tip-Teq. Chilean National Observer on board of the geophysical research ship Sonne, from Germany in southern Chile for the European project Tip-Teq.



Universidad de Chile

• Chile
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor "Statistical Physics"

  • Jun 2004 - Dec 2004